Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1
Digital Camera Review
Sep 21, 2009
- By Richard Baguley
5
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX1 is a powerful ultrazoom camera that shoots decent pictures and good looking video, as well as being able to easily take night shots and panoramas. At around $500, It is expensive, but it does offer a lot of features.
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The Nikon has a slight edge if you look at the specs: it shoots higher resolution images (12 megapixels against the 9 of the Sony), has a longer lens (24X against the 20x of the Sony) and is cheaper. But the Sony has superior performance in pretty much every category of our tests: it has better color, resolution and much better stabilization. The only area where the Nikon was superior was noise; although the Sony has the wider ISO range, the Nikon had lower noise in images at the ISO levels it achieved. The Sony was also a vastly superior performer at shooting video. While the Nikon could only shoot grainy standard definition video, the Sony could shoot very attractive high definition video.
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Sony DSC-HX1 |
Nikon P90 |
| Price |
$499.95 |
$399.95 |
| Color |
11.30 |
12.94 |
| Noise |
8.16 |
9.17 |
| Resolution |
12.47 |
8.24 |
| Image Stabilization |
23.14 |
0.00 |
| Shot to Shot |
11 |
2.34 |
| Video Color |
13.42 |
2.45 |
| Video Sharpness |
7.13 |
0.36 |
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Overall, the Sony is much better value for money if you can stretch to the extra $100.
